Another Christmas tradition is decorating a gingerbread house with candies and icing. We decorated a gingerbread Christmas tree, too, since I got it for sale after the Christmas last year. Good thing they are not meant for consuming. The cookies must be as hard as a rock after sitting for a year in our laundry room. Gingerbread decoration is a requirement in my house and kids were looking forward to get their hands sticky. I have to make sure they don't eat too many candies as they work. Saya kept saying "just this one!" and ate a whole a lot of candies. She squints her nose and smiles. She is a very funny girl. Aly told her "you are going to become a robot, Saya!" because I pretended I became a robot after eating a candy. Noah wanted to swipe the icing and kept trying, but Sean was a very good gingerbread house security guard. He got it just one time as you can see in the very blurry picture above. The look on Sean's face is priceless! It's a messy and noisy affair, but we enjoy decorating it together every year. It's not a tradition I grew up with, but feels comfortably right as if I have always done it. It's a reminder I am making someone's life and memory. Being a Mommy is great. I don't always feel like I am the best Mom, but I was a pretty cool Mom at least in my kids' eyes as we made our special gingerbread house together.
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